Application/octet-stream

As a very long time pine user, I have been annoyed by the many mime formats sent 
using octet-stream.  I found a little script on another list that I installed to 
sort these out and thought it might be of interest to others. The script runs as 
octet-stream from mailcap and installed in /usr/local/bin/ on my system, a 
Linux FC4 installation.


#!/bin/sh
# Converts octet-stream to display calls
# Borrowed from James Budiono 6/15/06 from Hyla Fax List posting
# D. R. Forrest 6/15/06

FILETYPE=`file $1 | cut -d ":" -f 2- | awk '/Microsoft Office/ { print "office"
}; /JPEG/ {print "jpg"};  /PDF/ {print "pdf"}; /ASCII/ {print "ascii"}; /PostScript/ {print "ps"}; /MPEG/ {print "mpeg"}; '`

#echo $FILETYPE
if [ "$FILETYPE" = "office" ] ; then
     #if it's MS-Office, then use ooffice
     /bin/echo " "
/usr/bin/ooffice $1

elif [ "$FILETYPE" = "pdf" ] ; then
     #if it is PDF, then convert it
     /bin/echo " "
/usr/local/bin/evince $1

elif [ "$FILETYPE" = "ascii" ] ; then
     #if it's a text file in disguise, convert it
     /bin/echo " "
/usr/bin/gedit  $1

elif [ "$FILETYPE" = "ps" ] ; then
     #if it's postscript, print it out directly
      /bin/echo " "
     /usr/bin/evince $1

elif [ "$FILETYPE" = "jpg" ] ; then
 	# jpg to eog
 	/bin/echo " "
 	/usr/bin/eog $1

elif [ "$FILETYPE" = "mpeg" ] ; then
     #if it's a mpeg, play it
      /usr/local/bin/mplayer $1

fi



-- 
David Forrest                     e-mail   [email protected]
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri
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